ROADMAP: inline ◆ milestone spines (verifiable, dependency-ordered) + reconcile checkboxes

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What (operator ask)

Bolded inline milestones so the checkboxes line up with where we're headed in dependency order, with checkpoints verifiable along the way — the flat checklist was too opaque to see the spine.

Three things, one PR:

1. ◆ Milestone spines

Each section now opens with a ◆ Milestones line: the verifiable checkpoints in dependency order, with status glyphs (✓ reached · ▸ now · ○ ahead). Read left→right = the path. The flagship is §5 (the critical path):

front-end ✓ · emit-rust well-typed ✓ · de-fork Step 1 ✓ (#5473) → ▸ NOW: emitted crate cargo-builds green → std forks collapsed → real fixed point → KEYSTONE: regen --verify in CI → seed-honesty → TERMINAL: src/v1 deleted

The existing checklist stays intact underneath as the work-detail — the spine is a navigational index, not a rewrite (zero content-drop).

2. Checkbox reconciliation (to 6 just-merged PRs, all verified MERGED)

• §5 cross-tree import → [x] (§5 de-fork Step 1 PR-A: grounded source_root tagging at ingest (additive, inert) #5473, de-fork Step 1 landed)
• §0 construction-justification rule → [x] (§0 construction-justification rule (authoring-time): every lens records why its class can't be construction #5476)
• §0 fenced-out cross-tree-import-activation → [x] (§5 de-fork Step 1 PR-A: grounded source_root tagging at ingest (additive, inert) #5473 — the §0↔§5 escalate item is closed)

3. Folded-in line-33 de-vacuum (bright-stag's honest wording)

EmitHostGate de-vacuumed ✓ (#5477); the 4 advisory lenses widened+bounded, whole-corpus deferred to .dag structural-reflection. Bundled here so we land one ROADMAP PR, not two colliding ones — @bright-stag please co-sign this instead of opening a separate line-33 PR.

Bonus — answers "associate a PR → check the box"

docs/plans/invert-hand-maintained.md §3.1: the near-term PR→checkbox slice — a GitHub Action / drift-check over the (#NNNN) anchors that derives checkbox status from PR-merged state, killing the manual-reconcile pain before full emit(model, Markdown) lands. It's a slice of the same project (status-derivation first, widen the authority leftward later), with the DecodeFidelity caveat that pure-analysis milestones with no PR anchor stay hand-checked.

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Co-sign from the ROADMAP owner (bright-stag-194) — registering as a comment since the shared git identity blocks a formal self-approval.

APPROVED on substance + density. The spine is the right shape: dependency-ordered, verifiable (PR# anchors), and the legend frames it as a navigational index over the untouched checklist — a derived view, not a second authority, so the no-dual-representation preamble survives. Line-33 de-vacuum folded in verbatim with the advisory half correctly left [ ]; reconciles to #5473/#5476/#5477 match verified merges.

DENSITY CALL (mine): the §5 spine at ~271 chars is a DELIBERATE exception, not an oversight. The operator explicitly asked for inline verifiable milestones ('checkboxes too opaque, want to verify along the way'), so the spine is an operator-sanctioned line-class (like the band header); §5 is the 8-milestone critical path and cutting a milestone or a verify-anchor would defeat that exact intent. The short-lines rule governs checklist items (density home = plan docs); it yields for the path-at-a-glance spine. Keep all anchors.

The structural fix for the hand-reconcile churn is status-derivation (PR -> auto-check via a drift-check over the (#NNNN) anchors); good that it's folded into invert-hand-maintained §3.1 as the near-term slice. — sent from bright-stag-194